Silas looked at how the boy was dressed and held back a laugh. He wasn’t sure what he was dressed as, but he figured it was something Muggle. Silas didn’t know much about Muggles, after all, he was wizard born, and Mom and Dad were too. To be honest, he wasn’t much sure how normal wizards lived either. He knew they had houses, but to him, that seemed rather dull. Wouldn’t they rather travel and see the world?

The boy who Silas was pretty sure wasn’t an Aquila as he squeaked an odd apology. When the other boy asked if he was catching fire, he laughed and shook his head. “Nope! I am a Norwegian Ridgeback Dragon. My mom charmed it so I can have smoke come out of my nose.” Silas was very excited about his costume. “What are you supposed to be?”

“I’m Silas Graley by the way. I’ve seen you in classes, but since we haven’t worked together, I never caught your name before.” He looked around at the party and smiled. It definitely seemed like it was more of a carnival than a party. “Also have you been on the slide yet?” Silas really wanted to go on now that he had watched a few people go down.

Anssi had never been to a Halloween party before, or even celebrated it at all. But now that he was living in America, Halloween was apparently just the right thing to do. He still didn’t really... more

Finally blinking his blue eyes now that he was reassured the other boy wasn’t about to burst into flame, Anssi made a soft oooooh sound, which was not so much a sound of him being reassured as it was ... more